This all rings true but from my vantage point this kind of management ends up introducing excess overhead that makes my work life more fraught with emotional un

This all rings true but from my vantage point this kind of management ends up introducing excess overhead that makes my work life more fraught with emotional uncertainty rather than less. I avoid it altogether. I don't want anyone, let alone an EM — someone overwhelmingly likely to have below average emotional intelligence relative to the general population — to be probing into my inner life in 1:1s and playing 4D chess orchestrating the team. I've experienced this. It's exhausting. The whole organizational arrangement is misbegotten. Most companies follow it largely out of faddishness and cargo-culting.